Brenda Davies has been through more than most parents could ever imagine. After burying her eldest son Nathan, aged 36, who took his own life in March she will now organise the funeral of her middle son Danny, 30, who is thought to have taken his own life last week.
Allowing me into her cosy home on a quiet street in Abergavenny, where she is doing this interview to warn people of what she believes is a serious threat to young people in rural Wales, she is remarkably controlled with her thoughts and calm in the message she would like to send. “My sons died as a result of an increasing drug problem in our society,” she said. “There is no way in a million years my boys would have done what they did if they had not been under the influence of drugs.”
She is needlessly apologetic about the way she is about to speak. “I am doing this because I don’t want another family to go through what we are going through,” she explained. “It’s happening too much.
